Easter Sunday fishing

Happy Easter Everyone. Nick Palisano, his father, brother and soon to be brother in laws went fishing with us today. Nicks brother Phil got the trip together for a prewedding gift for Nick. He gets married this Tuesday. He is in the Coast Guard here in Hatteras and is marrying a school teacher from our elementary school. Good luck to the new couple. We wish you many long years together. The fishing was better today than yesterday, thank goodness. We wound up with 10 or 12 Dolphin and a few jacks that we caught jigging for the day. The dirty cold water was over the rocks and the tuna bite was pretty much shut down for the day. Looks like the dolphin are going to start showing up for us just about on time. They may be a week or so early. The tunas are still here and when the water straightens out I am sure that we will be back on them again. Looks like a little weather in the middle of the week and then a nice weekend coming up. Hope to see some of you soon. They took the fish off the dock before I had a chance to get a picture this afternoon, they had some things to deal with and were in a hurry. I have posted a video clip from today though.

Saturday April 23rd fishing

We had a crowd from Williamsburg, Va. on board today. The ride out was rough this morning but was fairly nice once we got there. The fishing on the other hand was not so nice to us today. We wound up with one Blackfin Tuna and some Big Blue's for the day. We had maybe two more tuna bites and lost a nice wahoo that bit through the leader. It was slow up and down the line from Morehead up to Oregon Inlet today. When they don't bite they just don't bite and you can't do anything but ride around and hope you go over some hungry ones. Hoping that tomorrow will be a better day. Sorry no picture for the day.

Tuesday April 19th Fishing Firemen

Montgomery County Fire Fighters Rule

Today we had a crowd of Fire Fighters from Montgomery County Maryland. I was off of the boat today going to the Jimmy Buffet concert with my wife and some friends and my old mate, now Capt. Barry Jr. had the helm. He spent eight years on her with me so he knows her almost as good as I do. I couldn't have had a better person run her. They had a great day of fishing today with some nice Blackfin and Yellowfin tuna as well as a nice Mako. The guys took a video of the gaff shot and boating the fish. When I get it I'll edit it and post it to the site. I'm glad you guys had a great day fishing and we had a great time at the Jimmy Buffet concert so it all worked out well for both. Looking forward to seeing you guys next year.

Boat yard time

Looking good

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Starboard Side

Stern

Port Side with Peter hanging out in the Stern

In the slings getting ready to get splashed

Prop and rudder

This week was our yearly haul out at the boatyard in Buxton. Thankfully all in all things went smoothly and quickly. I hired another mate for a couple of days to compound and wax the hull and we did the topsides when we returned to the slip on Tuesday afternoon. It was a quick haul this year. We got pulled at 8:00 Monday morning and put her back in at 11:30 Tuesday. Of course we stayed until dark on Monday. We cleaned the running gear ,put on new zincs all around, painted the bottom , got the whole hull compounded and buffed out and the port side waxed before we called it quits for the day. Tuesday morning we waxed the starboard side, put the prop on, hooked up the rudder, picked her up and painted where the blocks and jack stands had been and came home. We compounded the topsides that afternoon and got half of it waxed before the rain came and we finished the rest on Wednesday. Now for some painting in the cockpit and getting the other fighting chair finished and we'll be good to go. The pics are from this week. Come and see us , The Fish Are Biting!

April 10th fishing

Mixed bag of tunas today

Switched yesterdays party to today due to the weather and it was a good move. Blew 25 all day yesterday and about 10 top 15 today, much better. The fishing was a little spotty today compared to Friday for us. A couple of boats got covered up by the yellowfins and some of us just couldn't make it happen. I'd get two bites and be thinking the rest of the spread was going to go down but it never happened. That's the way it goes sometimes. We wound up with a decent day with mixed bad of yellowfin and blackfin again. The yellowfin were a little nicer class today. We rn the boat up to the boatyard after we got in today. It's time for the yearly haul out and some TLC. Be back in business in a couple of days I hope. I will post some pictures later this week. Fishing has been good folks so come on down and lets go catch some tunas. 

Great day of Tuna fishing

Todd with a nice Blackfin

Nicki with Her Big Blackfin Tuna

Alan with a nice Yellowfin

Man what a beautiful day on the water it was today. It was halfway calm, warm and the fish were biting. I went away from the fleet this morning just because I had it in my head where I wanted to go and I stuck with my plan, thanks goodness for that. It took a little to get started but we found some marks and started getting a couple of bites around them. We picked a few for the first couple hours then some bigger marks started showing and we got into a better bite. We wound up with 24 for the day, mostly Blackfin with a couple of Yellowfin mixed in. This crowd was supposed to fish with me last weekend but we got blown out. Thanks for coming down today. And Todd thanks for not letting Candace beat me up, my body hurts bad enough already. Looking forward to seeing you guys again soon.